List of Famous people who died at 58

Christopher Michael Gable, CBE was an English ballet dancer, choreographer and actor.

Lieutenant-General Lij Abiye Abebe was an Ethiopian politician and son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Alfred Bengsch was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Berlin from 1961 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967.

Józef Nowak was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1951 and 1980.

John Herbert Chapman was a Canadian space researcher. He started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere.

Charles DuBois Coryell was an American chemist who was one of the discoverers of the element promethium.

Ranald MacDougall was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra. He also directed a number of films, including 1957's Man on Fire with Bing Crosby and 1959's The World, the Flesh and the Devil, both of which featured actress Inger Stevens.

Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays.